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  • Linux doesn’t do the drive letter thing. Instead, you have to identify the disks by their partition IDs.

    When you install your OS, you’ll be able to mount the disks to wherever you like. If you want, you can create directories in /mnt, like /mnt/e, /mnt/f etc. Then you can mount your disks according to those letters.

    The main issue you’ll run into is disk format. NTFS will work, but its poorly supported.

    To get a better idea of how it works, try passing a USB disk into the VM you’ve created.















  • I was using it to deploy VMs to vsphere, and to test, started by deploying against a local KVM. Got it all working, copied the config to my prod vsphere, hoping I could just update the creds, and bunch of the KVM flags didn’t work for vsphere, so I had to fix/rewrite them, which wasted a lot of time.

    TF would be amazing if it was a single API that appled generically to all backends. And it sorta is for the most part, but there are just a few footguns that can really spoil the mood. If they had a core API and anything non-portable was clearly documented, that would be good as well.